Framing and Ideology: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Chinese Newspaper Coverage of the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women an the NGO Forum

Akhavan-Majid, Roya; Ramaprasad, Jyotika

doi:10.1207/s15327825mcs0103&4_2

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“…The situation started to change in the early 1990s. For instance, Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad (1998) found that in the early 1990s NGOs and their issues were rarely highlighted. Even when mass media occasionally covered them, Chinese NGOs were marginalized in press coverage, and they attracted limited public attention.…”

Section: Chinese Ngos and Mainstream Media Coveragementioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese non-governmental organizations, media, and culture: communication perspectives, practices, and provocations

Cheong

Yang²

2017

Chinese Journal of Communication

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The prolific rise of Chinese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for advancing social and political change has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Nonetheless, limited communication studies research has been conducted to further contemporary understanding of these emerging collectives, particularly beyond the popular hype of digital and social media-led "revolutions" in civic engagement or dystopian accounts of Chinese society. This paper reviews the key contours of communication scholarship on Chinese NGOs and highlights the major contributions of the articles in this special issue. We also propose three dialectical tensions to stimulate future research in mediated Chinese NGO organizing, and to help advance the communicative purposes, practices and prospects of Chinese NGOs.

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Section: Chinese Ngos and Mainstream Media Coveragementioning

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Chinese non-governmental organizations, media, and culture: communication perspectives, practices, and provocations

Cheong

Yang²

2017

Chinese Journal of Communication

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“…The "elite" U.S. newspapers, which set the tone nationally for domestic and international news coverage, provided limited reporting of IWY issues and events. They often reduced their importance through the placement of articles in human interest and/or lifestyle sections rather than on the front page or in sections devoted to world news and international events (Cooper and Davenport 1987, Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad 1998, Phalen and Algan 2001. Viewed broadly, these trends in U.S. coverage reflect a prolonged treatment of issues pertaining to women as lesser and unworthy of news coverage (Danner and Walsh 1999).…”

Section: Previous Research On Media Coverage Of Iwy Conferencesmentioning

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“…2 For despite their public role, UN conferences for women -as well as the international women's movement -have gone largely unnoticed by much of the media, particularly in the United States ( Jurney 1983, Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad 1998, Danner and Walsh 1999, O'Brien, Goetz, Scholte, and Williams 2000, Phalen and Algan 2001, Global Report 2005.…”

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Liberal States and Print Media Coverage of Global Advocacy Events: The Case of the UN Beijing Conference for Women

Mueller

Restifo

2012

Comp Sociol

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UN conferences and summits have played a critical role in bringing local activists' claims to international audiences. One might assume that UN conferences, like other fora of "information politics," rely on the global media to convey advocates' messages. Yet, extensive research on U.S. media portrayals of UN women's conferences, 1975-1995, have not found this to be the case. To the contrary, U.S. press coverage of these conferences follows a seemingly universal pattern of negative representations of female political candidates and public officials in the media. However, since there are sharp national differences in social policies related to women, we question whether media in other liberal democracies follow the U.S. pattern for covering UN women's conferences or reflect the more variable pattern of diverse national policies. Comparing elite media from the United States, Canada, and Britain, we find evidence suggesting variable coverage across countries. * ) An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2006 annual meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association in Hollywood, CA. We thank Matthew Costello and Liana Sayer for their valuable comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to David Sciulli and the Comparative Sociology reviewers for their thoughtful advice. Direct correspondence to: Salvatore J. Restifo,

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“…Given that news media influence movements' success or failure through how they frame their causes, stances, and ultimately their ideologies (Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad, 1998;Gitlin, 1980), and that many Palestinians employed violence for their cause's sake, the symbiotic relationship between political violence and media (e.g. Tuman, 2003) emerges very clearly in the Palestinian case.…”

Section: Intertwinement Of Political Violence and Palestinian Causementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Victor, 2003) which began in 2000 and arguably remains under way. News media can be crucial to a social movement's success or failure through how they frame the movement's causes, stances, and ultimately their ideologies (Akhavan-Majid and Ramaprasad, 1998;Gitlin, 1980). Indeed, the communication order is a critical foundation for constituting social and political changes (Altheide, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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In the Shadow of a Leader

Ismail¹

2009

Journalism Studies

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Framing and Ideology: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Chinese Newspaper Coverage of the Fourth United Nations Conference on Women an the NGO Forum

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Chinese non-governmental organizations, media, and culture: communication perspectives, practices, and provocations

Chinese non-governmental organizations, media, and culture: communication perspectives, practices, and provocations

Liberal States and Print Media Coverage of Global Advocacy Events: The Case of the UN Beijing Conference for Women

In the Shadow of a Leader

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